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Andrea Pollack

1961 - 2019

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Andrea Pollack (later Pinske; 8 May 1961 – 13 March 2019) was a butterfly swimmer from East Germany who won three Olympic gold medals. Pollack was born in 1961 in Schwerin. She was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrea Pollack has received more than 63,199 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Andrea Pollack is the 143rd most popular swimmer (down from 90th in 2019), the 5,542nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,895th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Andrea Pollack ranks 143 out of 709Before her are Shirley Stobs, Bob Skelton, Kathy Ellis, Inge de Bruijn, Wilhelm Lützow, and Pua Kealoha. After her are George Vernot, Jack Medica, Shiro Hashizume, Harold Hardwick, Bill Mulliken, and Raymond Thorne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Andrea Pollack ranks 490Before her are Bill English, Leonard Orban, Karin Enke, Anthony McCarten, Einars Repše, and Bodil Jørgensen. After her are Andy Taylor, Gyrðir Elíasson, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Brad Gilbert, Christopher Ferguson, and Yuji Sugano. Among people deceased in 2019, Andrea Pollack ranks 500Before her are Susan Bernard, Basil Heatley, Ivan Kizimov, Paul Sauvage, Hamza bin Laden, and W. Morgan Sheppard. After her are Elwyn Berlekamp, Sergey Dorenko, Djimrangar Dadnadji, Zaza Urushadze, Yasuhiro Takemoto, and Arun Jaitley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andrea Pollack ranks 5,542 out of 7,253Before her are Renate Künast (1955), Hermann Nuber (1935), Falko Götz (1962), August Heim (1904), Sascha Gerstner (1977), and Harry Voigt (1913). After her are Rudolf Krause (1907), Erwin Keller (1905), René Pape (1964), Harald Konopka (1952), WestBam (1965), and Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (1963).

Among SWIMMERS In Germany

Among swimmers born in Germany, Andrea Pollack ranks 15Before her are Michael Gross (1964), Max Schöne (1880), Otto Fahr (1892), Ulrike Richter (1959), Julius Frey (1881), and Wilhelm Lützow (1892). After her are Hannelore Anke (1957), Ulrike Tauber (1958), Ines Diers (1963), Caren Metschuck (1963), Rica Reinisch (1965), and Ute Geweniger (1964).